@mjl08
This is a good resource highlighting where excess capacity exists in the TDSB (with maps)
City TV has a report here on the issue:
Around 50,000 desks that should be occupied by students are sitting empty at underutilized schools throughout Toronto, costing the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) millions of dollars a year as the province embarks on a review of a moratorium on school closures. The latest enrollment numbers...
toronto.citynews.ca
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Central Tech is an interesting case; an absolutely gorgeous heritage building as its centrepiece which demands preservation.
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A lot of the 'excess capacity' results from additions and outbuildings; but those are where many of the specialty programs are located. (swimming, aircraft and auto maintenance etc)
If you wanted to fold another High School into it, you run into more problems, there are only two close by, one is Harbord, a gorgeous old heritage building one wouldn't want to see lost, but also not a particularly logical site for development of any height.
Or you could fold Heydon Park Secondary, which is a bit closer to downtown, with a facility I don't think anyone would cry over losing, except for the location (and for some the programming); but its just off Beverly and there's no real provision for anything tall there either.
The best development site in the bunch is the north end outbuildings of Central Tech which are kitty-corner to Mirvish Village, and being north of the school field would not present a shadowing issue; but the cost of retrofitting the heritage building to add-back the facilities that would be lost would be prohibitive I would think.